Austin, Turner Co-author Journal Article on Education Technology

UMass Amherst School of Education faculty members Nat Turner and Theresa Austin co-authored an article that will appear in the April/May issue of the Multicultural Education & Technology Journal.

The article, titled "Using digital technologies to address Aboriginal adolescents' education: An alternative school intervention," was co-written by Fatima Pirbhai Illich of the University of Regina, Saskatchewan.

The piece reports on an ongoing ethnographic study that examines how digital literacies can motivate aboriginal youth to engage in academic literacy.

Austin and Pirbhai Illich will present an update on their project next month at the American Educational Research Association's annual conference in San Diego.

Turner is an assistant professor and Austin is an associate professor in the Language, Literacy and Culture concentration in the Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies Department.